Taiwan

Flag, capital, map and facts.

Flag of Taiwan
Flag of Taiwan
Outline map of Taiwan
Outline, north up
Capital
Taipei
Continent
Asia
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Land neighbours
None
Centre of main landmass
23.7° N, 121.0° E
Location of Taiwan on a world map (Natural Earth projection).

Taiwan at a glance

Taiwan is in Asia. Its capital is Taipei. It has no land neighbours.

The World Bank publishes none of the indicators used here for Taiwan, so this page has no figures or rankings for it.

Flag of Taiwan

Taiwan’s flag is drawn in the proportions 2:3 (height to width), the most common shape among the 197 flags in our quizzes (87 of them).

When it is the question in Guess the Flag, the wrong answers include one or two of the flags most like it in layout and colour: Samoa, Tonga, China and Türkiye.

Taiwan and its nearest countries

Taiwan has no land neighbours, so this compares it with the four countries closest to it.

CountryPopulation2025Area2023GDP per person2025Distanceclosest points
Taiwan———
China1,406,585,0009,562,910 km²$13,862under 10 km
Philippines116,786,962300,000 km²$4,171about 160 km
Japan123,366,734377,969 km²$35,951about 190 km
South Korea51,684,564100,450 km²$36,227about 980 km

Quizzes featuring Taiwan

Map quizzes

Flag, outline and capital quizzes

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Sources

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